Hey guys and gals. Another week of Sam and Dan Games has begun! v6.1.1 of Pokemon Tower Defense is now out! You can get your very own Shadow Lickitung by finding the Mystery Gift Code at the link above. (Yes I know he doesn't know Shadow Rush, but you can relearn them move if you want :) )

We are working hard to get you guys some entertainment and at the same time thinking about what the next steps are for us. As an small independent game studio (we aren't even an official company yet, but will be this year) the best thing we can do is create new and exciting games. Pokemon Tower Defense is an exciting game but we really can only do so much with it because we didn't create Pokemon. Which is why you will see us focus on Hero Tower Defense once PTD 1 is over. But I realize that most of you here are fans of PTD and I have created over 400 moves which I plan to maximize. So I will also be working on PTD 2 on the side.

Last week I put up a poll about the Day/Night System for PTD 2 (which I explained last blog) and it looks like the winner is a Dynamic Day/Night System! Because that is the winner I wanted to include more details about it.

The Day/Night System will work similar to how it works in the game. Some pokemon or events will only happen at certain times in the game's clock. But unlike the game the clock will not be based around 24 hours or around your device's time. It will be based on your play time on levels. Each complete day might like 2-3 hours, when you first play the game will be in day time and as you play the time will be changing. About half way through the day you will enter night time. So as you can see it's not tied to any specific time zone or your computer's clock.

Last week I also finished the preloader for the game, so instead of seeing a white screen you will see a percentage on screen and I made a cool little race so you have something to be entertained by while you wait. The race is Chikorita vs. Totodile vs. Cyndaquil as you load your game they will move closer to the finish line and who knows maybe they will evolve. This is just a small detail that I hope you can appreciate while you wait for the game to load.

Also PTD 2 will have a nice little intro scene that Joel, my brother, made. Joel will also be helping make the intro and ending cutscenes for all the levels which will help make them more interesting and detailed. It will also help me complete more since I will have my hands busy with HTD.

PTD 2 TITLE SCREEN CONTEST!
Speaking of intro scenes, just like PTD I'm holding a competition for the actual title screen of the game, this time they can't have their own animated intro (since the game will already have an animation to start) but can have animated elements. So no rolling pokeball and pikachu coming out of it but you can have the rollovers or animations in the page itself. For now just put the same elements that the current game has on there. (Start, Options, Feedback, the Mystery Code, Pokemon Tower Defense 2, a Sam Game, and tell us how to make it better) Post these on our forum so other users can comment and give you feedback. The prize will be all 3 SHINY LEGENDARY DOGS! Which won't be available until PTD 2 comes out later this year. Like I said don't email me your entries, post them on the forum. This contest will run for at least a month so you will have time to make them special. Show me what you got!

We are also talking about our third game which is the Creatures Universe game (Project ANPO), you can read more about it here. As the weeks go by I will be talking more about the ideas I have for it on the blog so look forward to that.

This week in PTD we will have a new Story level, new TMs, a new Mystery Gift, new level cap, along with some other bug fixes. I will also put some of my pokemon up for trade, got any special request for what pokemon I should put up for trade? Let me know in the comments. Also let me know which TMs you would like to see this week in the comments. (TMs with moves that are already in the game will be more likely to be added this week)

PTD First Look for v6.2 by GraphicForce!

PTD 1 Progress:

Story Level (100%) - Pallet Town Training

Intro (100%)

Layout (100%)

Waves (100%)

Ending (100%)

Mystery Gift Pokemon (100%) - This is for Monday! MissingNo. The Glitch Pokemon!

Implement in Saving Code (100%)

Stats (100%)

Graphics (100%)

Moves (100%)

Added Toxic to the Pokemon Center's Move List (100%) New TMs (100%)

Hydro Pump (100%) - Being available to more pokemon.

Bulldoze (100%)

X-Scissor (100%)

Fury Cutter (100%)

Sludge Wave (100%)

Psyshock (100%)

Level Cap Increase (100%) - Level cap to 95

Implement in game (100%)

Implement in Saving Code (100%)

Implement in Trading Center (100%)

PTD 2 Progress:

Temporary Title Screen (0%) - The final one will be from the contest winner, but I will make a placeholder one for now.
Options Menu (0%) - Adding some more options here, like a logout, and more.

That's all for today! As always let me know what you think! If you have any question about PTD, beating a level or how to get a particular pokemon head to our forums, many people there will be happy to help you. If you have account problems send me an email for everything else leave me a comment below!

so, there is a block of metal and typhlosion comes up and uses flamethrower to heat and melt it, meganium come also, using razor leaf/vine whip to carve the letters "Pokemon Tower Defense" and soon, feraligatr appears and uses water gun to cool it down, and celebi(or any other kanto/johto psychic legendary) comes and uses psychic to make the colors, and pikachu once again, come up and uses thunder to creat the number "2". and the three starters jump to the left to create the buttons "Start" "options" and "Feedback", the legendary pokemon goes to the bottom right for the mystery gift box(i like the pokedex idea) and pikachu jumps into the sign to make it glow with...AWESOMENESS!!!

PLEASE respond to my idea, even if it has no real drawings to it. PLEASE RESPOND!!! i feel neglected when i don't get responded to. :( ..... :)

Hey Sam, I have posted this on some other blogs but I don't know if you have read it, so once again here is my idea for PTD 2. How about Shadow Lugia as the criminal mastermind with Shadow Pokémon as his minions?As for the Mystery Gift, how about Togepi when the level after the Azalea Gym comes out? That's where you regularly get Togepi.Please respond.

Sam, might I suggest a Giga Impact TM? And maybe more Shadow moves? I'm not talking all of them, obviously, but at least throw in a Special Shadow move, so stuff like Shadow Alakazam gets something worth using out of the deal. And maybe a slightly more powerful physical Shadow move as well. Nothing overpowered, just, you know, better than Shadow Rush.

Many abilities require a lot of reworking that won't make it in PTD 1, for PTD 2 I will rework things to make the abilities work. So PTD 1 won't have any more new abilities but PTD 2 will have them all.

FINALLY!!! LEVEL CAP!!! Now I actually have something to do instead of sleeping all over the house! :DAlso, two questions.1) How many levels do you estimate are left? Maybe 3?2) When will PTD 2 be released, best-case scenario? Considering what you said about it coming later this year, maybe August-ish?

I can't freakin beat zapdos on route 17. Can't even get his HP under 90%. Tried all lvl 90 rock types, tried all lvl 90 gastlys doing curse, and many many many other methods and still no closer. His HP wont budge. Wtf!

1. Is PTD2 focused on Gen 2 only? or will it have a few other random gens? or focused on more than 1 gen?? and will it have all Gen 1 from PTD?

2. Can you PLEASE make a bellsprout avatar?? Like for PTD2 I would love to see you have alot of new avatar costumes for free / SnD coins.

3. I miss the polls for the next mystery gifts, please bring them back weekly for PTD2

4. Why does Cinnabar Island have the same setup as Cinnabar Gym?

5. Please add new pokeballs and make it harder to get pokemon! it would make the game alot better in my opinion, like all the regular pokemon in the game besides legends, snorlax, etc. are VERY common and nobody wants them in trades and stuff, but if they were harder to catch it would make it more like the original pokemon games, hope you get what I mean by this.

Thanks Sam love the game and I'd like to see you answer all the comments again xD

hi1. there will be mostly gen 2 and gen 1 pokemon in ptd 2 (like the original gold/silver)2. I do want to have more avatars in the sequel and you can use all your old ones also3. those will be back4. lack of time5. there will be more kinds of pokeballs in the sequel

Quick question about roaming legends...Are you able to give us the exact percentage of them appearing?Do they cause the game to freeze like shinies do in case you are working on something else at the moment?

Oops... that was 2 questions...

O yah, and will we ever discover why mewthree wanted the rare candy in the beginning of the game?Will we meet back with Brock, Jessie, and James, and will they realize that they were once part of TR?

also, maybe a way to propose an offer to somebody, for example offering one of your rare pokemon for some of his. you know, lets say somebody has a shiny snorlax and a shiny tauros and i have a suicune and want to offer it for his two pokemons

Can you make more levels with rare pokemon to catch like how Eevee , Snorlax, and Lapras were? give more pokemon a low appearence rate I think those are fun when you finally see the pokemon.

But can you please for those rare pokemon, (Eevee , Snorlax, etc) make a screen appear like it does for the shinies. Have it say "A Rare Pokemon Appeared"Because I just missed a Lapras due to so many Blue health ones, right when I saw it, it was pretty much leaving, and I was waiting for like an hour!!!! :''''(

i think you should make an achievement to get the three kanto starters shadow by completing the pokedex. or maybe not the starters seeing as you want to wait, but maybe a different pokemon. also i think it should just be regular pokemon completion not shiny and shadow.

oh btw can you create something in the trading center which will help ppl see what other ppl offered on a certain pokemon so they know kinda what to offer and need what to beat that offer so theere offer gets accepted lol you know what i mean >.< plz make this cause i wanna check on other ppls offer :)

Hey Sam, I had a idea last time, and its not even showing up!:C I can understand if you don't like the idea but could you please check it, in case you haven't checked it since you posted it. On a way different topic, I'm really lookin' forward to PTD2! Keep up the good work! Anyways Thx.

I know tis would take a great deal of time, but have you you ever considered giving the players an option of which region they want to start their journey in? For the chance to get the pokemon they want sooner. Using my self as an example, my favorite starter is Treecko and I really want one. You could rotate which region to add a level to eacch week because I cant wait for the Hoenn region.

My main request TM wise, is allow more pokemon to access Hydro Pump than those who can already learn it. It's very strange for Slowbro and Slowpoke to be able to learn Fire Blast but not their first type's main 120 attack Hydro Pump. There are some who learn up to bubble and water gun but can't access Hydro Pump, like kingler, dragonite, and the fossil pokemon. At the very least hook up the water types please ^^

Sam I have a good idea for the title screen of PTD2 the screen should show which pokemon are able to catch,the new legends,levels,and for the mystery gift should be a pokeball showing the pokemon or avatar.

I figured out the code for shadow lickitung however it says your code is no longer valid. Mystery Gift Codes are only valid for one week. Is it by chance a same code that was used previously and that is why I am getting that message?

i have a little doubt on the day/night thing. you start playin in the day time, and after a few hours of playing it becomes night, but the playing has to be all at once and it resets or it keeps track of your playing time from the moment you start playing and goes on and on changing? so lets say i play for half an hour, then later that day i come back and play a couple of hours and i reach the night time, then i stop playing. the next time i log in, let's say a few days later, it will still be night in the game? or the clock resets?

ummm how is ptd2 going to work? i mean if i want to conservate my pokes of ptd 1 i will have to trade them to ptd2? or they will disapear with the time? like when you play an old version you lose your pokes :( i dont want to lose my pokes but idk if i want to trade them to ptd2 sooo im scared :S

Sam you should make mew the mystery gift next week, as he is not catchable it is the logical choice to put him in before all the catchable pok emon. Tho I respect your authority to decide yourself, I just want mew as a consideration.

I actually have a suggestion for PTD2. You should make it a scrolling texture game but when there's a battle it goes into tower's as always. Tho it would take a lot of time that would be amazing. Also would you mind if I made a little banner to put on my profiles to help you get more players?

What I mean by that is I hate how just any pokemon can learn really good moves, like Muk can learn Thunder, Giga Drain, Fire Blast, etc. One bad thing about it is that it makes the legendaries alot less special

Hi Sam I hope PTD2 will be very nice like PTD1 and my idea for the PTD 2 TITLE SCREEN CONTEST is :1)lugia and shadow lugia on the background instead of mewtwo and mewthree (if you want to put them in the story)like in the game there will be day and night2)delibird that have for you an egg and from the egg comes out the mystery gift pokemon (infact they are always level 1 as they were just born). I would like the first to be togepi3)Since the starters will be already in the preloader I suggest for start options and feedback to use legendary pokemons so or the 3 dogs or Ho-oh for start (because we start our journey as Ash in the anime) , lugia for options and celebi for feedback.4)The write pokemon tower defense 2 with pichu and pikachu one one the right and the other on the left that make the 2 shining with a spark that cames out from their cheeks and last but not least the write a Sam Game with Sam written with 3 unowns. Good work Sam as I say you every week!

Hey, Sam, a major question, although it's not about the game.Could you change the design blog??? The reason I ask is because every time that the blog goes over 200 comments then I can't see the comments past 200; the blog says it's loading the comments, but it just sits there. Could you maybe combine the page system of the previous blog with the comment/reply system of the current blog???

Hey, Sam, I thought of something that might make collecting pokemon a little funner. One of the funnest things I like to do in PTD is try and collect all the pokemon, and I'm getting close, but I wish there were more versions of different pokemon. So I thought, what if you could get a Gold or Silver version of each pokemon in PTD 2, because in the Johto region the game's names were Pokemon Gold and Silver. I didn't think of crystal, but that might have been cool, too. Just a thought, though. :)

Sam please publish my comment and answer me. I suggest for the ptd2 pokecenter to make a pokemon return automatically back to the account if it has no offers on it and the player is not gone for a specific period of time on the pokecenter because now I always find a lot of old pokemons that are there since months and maybe they have as request a shiny vicini so pokemons that neither exist in the game. Theese old pokemons are a lot and you load every time them loosing a lot of time.

I'd like to suggest you make more rare pokemon! maybe release some catchable for just a week or buyable for just a day, not sure, but in PTD2 of course, I just miss when there were alot of rare pokemon because as you can tell I've been playing for a while, just about every pokemon worth only goes down, and none up. Hope you consider this I'd appreciate it very much

2 more things... (sorry)You said that you can tell us the percentage of wild beasts, yet you didn't. So know I ask you, WILL you?Will we see celebi in PTD 2, as in just before he leaves to help us in PTD1? (and then maybe have a challenge level where we can use our own pokes to help in the battle against erika?)Also, be sure to keep Joey and Maruto in PTD2. We havn't been able to see much of their rivalry because of maruto's abduction for so long. (Speaking of his abduction, how did he get stuck with Janine without Janine being abuducted herself? (and if she was abducted, it wasn't very obvious)...THATS A LOT MORE THAN TWO...

Hey few question for youFirst will the next level be a training levelTwo are we going to be going to catch the legendary birds in there caves like seafoam islandsThree will we be able to go to the new islands as in fire red and leaf greenFour when exactly will we be able to transfer our pokemon to ptd2Five why doesnt any shadow pokemon learn over shadow moves as in pokemon XDLastly for ptd2 will you be going to kanto as in gold and silver

Not sure if you'd be willing to look at considering adding this 'cause it is a small little thing, but worth a shot!In the trade center, is there any possible way you could add an edit requests on pokemon you have up for trade instead of having to cancel it completely and re-add it back up for trade?

I'm missing 6 pokemon to have the full pokedexare:ElectabuzzSnorlaxZapdosMoltresArticunoMewMewtwo5 of them legendary 2 normal 1 can get but it costs a lot (Snorlax) and the other can not be captured (Electabuzz)My proposal:Introduce in the last level before the viridian city gym and Electabuzz Snorlax most likely to catch up as 5 to 10% and then the other 90 other pokemon as caterpie, metapod, abra, kadabra, Haunter ect.

hey can you MAKE it possible to catch mew 3 at the end of PTD because i mean like at the end if you almost are done defeating mew 3 can you make it possible to catch him? plz respond to me at this email: ARNOLDAWSOME@LIVE.COM

Hey Sam, I was thinking, for the transferring of pokemon from ptd to ptd 2, what if we had some sort of level to do that? Like migration or transferring, but not where we had to actually catch our own pokemon, maybe where there was like a machine in the background and we have to fight bill's pokemon or something, and if we win, we get our pokemon, if we don't, we can try again. So we'd have to win a level in order to transfer our pokemon.

Sam In the 2 you could put some ptde new items to buy in the Pokémart as masterball ultraball or better or maybe pokemon potions and objects to exchange some pokemon need for new pokemons evolucionarse and black and white version maybe ... Erick.

I'm definitely entering the PTD2 title screen contest. Can't pass up an opportunity to get the entire legendary gerbil trio in Shiny form! I've completed my submission, just one thing- where in the forum do I post my entry? I don't see a thread for it.

SAM I HAVE A BIG REQUEST FOR YOU, PLEASE ADD A LITTLE SUBTITLE IN BLOG THAT SAYS ONLY GEN1 Pokemon (with a few exceptions) WILL BE IN PTD1 AND PTD2 WILL HAVE GEN2(and 1 maybe) IT IS REALLY ANNOYING SEEING PEOPLE SAYING TO ADD OTHER GEN POKEMON TO PTD :/